[Peter_K]

My guess is that the valve body and solenoid pack are one unit (or they don't want to separate them) as your failure really sounds like a bad solenoid. As transmission "surgeries" go this would be pretty minor. Sucks in a new vehicle but I wouldn't be too concerned about the "operation" so to speak.

 

[AZhiCntry]

My guess is that the valve body and solenoid pack are one unit (or they don't want to separate them) as your failure really sounds like a bad solenoid. As transmission "surgeries" go this would be pretty minor. Sucks in a new vehicle but I wouldn't be too concerned about the "operation" so to speak.

X2. As far as transmissions go this a simple/uncomplicated fix. Don't worry about it and enjoy your Jeep for yrs to come.:thumbsup:

 

[SkipBGrad]

Re: Transmission won't shift into reverse 2014 Limited *update*

X2. As far as transmissions go this a simple/uncomplicated fix. Don't worry about it and enjoy your Jeep for yrs to come.:thumbsup:

Picked up my Jeep after 17 days at the dealer. They replaced the valve body which was on national back order (Hmmm did others need replacing too?). The 8-speed valve body replacement was new territory for the techs at my dealer so they worked closely with their engineering contact at Chrysler. Once they got it back together, the transmission operated normally but was still throwing a code (MIL illuminated). Engineering determined it was a connector in the valve body that was not seated properly (from manufacturing). So, you guessed it, techs opened it up again and properly seated the connector. Once back together, all was good. On Monday the Case Manager from Chrysler is supposed to follow-up with me regarding my satisfaction with the repair. I sure hope this is behind us, especially since we're driving a fair distance for Thanksgiving.

 

[AZhiCntry]

Re: Transmission won't shift into reverse 2014 Limited *update*

Picked up my Jeep after 17 days at the dealer. They replaced the valve body which was on national back order (Hmmm did others need replacing too?). The 8-speed valve body replacement was new territory for the techs at my dealer so they worked closely with their engineering contact at Chrysler. Once they got it back together, the transmission operated normally but was still throwing a code (MIL illuminated). Engineering determined it was a connector in the valve body that was not seated properly (from manufacturing). So, you guessed it, techs opened it up again and properly seated the connector. Once back together, all was good. On Monday the Case Manager from Chrysler is supposed to follow-up with me regarding my satisfaction with the repair. I sure hope this is behind us, especially since we're driving a fair distance for Thanksgiving.

Skip, thanks for the update. Hope your troubles are over!:thumbsup: I would much rather have a hard part failure that can be identified and fixed than have these electronic gremlins that the techs will be chasing down for years to come and some they will never catch. The rollout of this new Uconnect is about as successful as the launch of the Obamacare website! lol

 

[Laxjeep]

Currently going thru this issue as well. Would not shift out of gear, CEL light came on. And had very harsh shifting even after the tranny updates. Especially 1-2 and 2-1. Like mentioned before, they worked with Chrysler ppl to determine cause was valve body and TCM (i believe they said its 1 piece) because dealer was perplexed. Dealer mentioned Chrysler said they are seeing this problem pop up.

They have had truck since Tues.

Thanks for the info regarding this being a simple fix. I really had no clue if it was complicated or not.

I will keep everyone updated.

 

[Laxjeep]

After 8 days i got the truck back. It was shifting out of park fine (not speaking of the harsh shifting) from tues-thurs. then this morn it happened again. And the CEL light came on again. I took a video of it, but don't know how to post it. PM me if u want me to text u the video. Or how to upload.
I'll let you know what's going to happen this time @ the dealer.

To the OP, have you have good results with the fix?

 

[ACguyYYZ]

I've had an issue similar to this happen to me twice now.. While backing out of my driveway, and into my parking spot at work I notice when in reverse if I give some gas (and not always) but it thuds and shifts on its own into neutral.

 

[not_too_shabby]

Picked up my Jeep after 17 days at the dealer. They replaced the valve body which was on national back order (Hmmm did others need replacing too?). The 8-speed valve body replacement was new territory for the techs at my dealer so they worked closely with their engineering contact at Chrysler. Once they got it back together, the transmission operated normally but was still throwing a code (MIL illuminated). Engineering determined it was a connector in the valve body that was not seated properly (from manufacturing). So, you guessed it, techs opened it up again and properly seated the connector. Once back together, all was good. On Monday the Case Manager from Chrysler is supposed to follow-up with me regarding my satisfaction with the repair. I sure hope this is behind us, especially since we're driving a fair distance for Thanksgiving.

Might be worth seeing if they will throw in an extra few years of power train warranty.

 

[SkipBGrad]

I've had an issue similar to this happen to me twice now.. While backing out of my driveway, and into my parking spot at work I notice when in reverse if I give some gas (and not always) but it thuds and shifts on its own into neutral.

If you haven't, I'd certainly take it in to be looked at. We were lucky it failed in the driveway and not away from home.

 

[josapo]

I had a similar problem over Thanksgiving holidays with my V6 Overland (3/13 build and 9500 miles). It would not shift into P or R and CEL came on. After restarting a couple of times it went into gear. Took it to out of town dealer and of course CEL off at dealer. They'd did find a code P1B14 for unintended park position but otherwise could find no issue and sent me on my way. Car drove normally rest of day but next day did same thing. I drove it to my home dealer and after performing diagnostics from Jeep engineering, they concluded transmission had failed and replaced the unit. Didn't have an explanation for what failed just that it wasn't a software issue. My service advisor said Jeep did not want them performing mechanical repairs on transmission and opted for replacing unit. I didn't have harsh or other shift issues with old transmission as others have reported except for too quick 123 shifts in ECON mode which got better after flash. But after limited driving with new transmission I would say it seems smoother and better behaved in all modes.

 

[fnkychkn]

Picked up my Jeep after 17 days at the dealer. They replaced the valve body which was on national back order (Hmmm did others need replacing too?). The 8-speed valve body replacement was new territory for the techs at my dealer so they worked closely with their engineering contact at Chrysler. Once they got it back together, the transmission operated normally but was still throwing a code (MIL illuminated). Engineering determined it was a connector in the valve body that was not seated properly (from manufacturing). So, you guessed it, techs opened it up again and properly seated the connector. Once back together, all was good. On Monday the Case Manager from Chrysler is supposed to follow-up with me regarding my satisfaction with the repair. I sure hope this is behind us, especially since we're driving a fair distance for Thanksgiving.

Any update on this issue?